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  1. 1936

    On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem

    Proc. London Math. Soc.

    Alan Turing's 1936 paper defined computable numbers through an abstract machine, now called the Turing machine, and showed that no general method can decide whether any given mathematical statement is provable.

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